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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIDNEY G. SPENCER, OE SHREVEPORT, LOUISINA.

TAG-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters :Eatent No. 694,301, dated March 4, 1902.

Application led July 6, 1901. Serial No. 67,253. (No model.)V

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known 'that I, SIDNEY G. SPENCER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Shreveport, in the parish of Caddo, in theV State of Louisiana, have made certain new and useful Improvements in TaggFasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an Yimprovement in tagfasteners, and has for an object to provide a novel construction of fastener for application to the bolt-board of bolts of cloth or other fabric, the invention seeking to provide a fastener whose end arms will conform to and rest snugly against the ends of the boards, while the side arms will rest snugly against the sides of the boards, and the prqngsor hooks will bite into the'opposite faces of the' board, the fastener being readily applied to and removed from the board; and the invention consists in the novel construction of the tag-fastener, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l shows the fastener applied to a bolt of cloth.V Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 a-iop plan view, of the clasp removed from the board, and Fig. fi is an end elevation of the fastener looking at the coiled end thereof; and Figs. 5 and 6 are end views, broken away, of bolt-boards ofdifwhich project the end 'arms ferent thicknesses with the fastener applied. In the construction shown the tag-fastener is formed, preferably, of suitable spring-wire cut a suitable length and formed at its middle with a coil A, from the opposite ends of B, which extend in reverse `directions from the opposite ends of the coil and are made of sufiicientdength to extend in use to the'opposite faces of the bolt-hoard l on which the goods are rolled. The side arms C entend on straight lines from the outer extremities from the end arms B at approximatelyl right angles thereto and inoline toward their free ends toward each other both longitudinally and laterally, so their eX- tremities are approximately opposite or adjacent to each other,.as will be understood from Fig. 3. This inclination of the side arms longitudinally toward each other is shown inthe side view, Fig. 2, While the inclination of the said side arms laterally toward each other is illustrated in the top plan view, Fig. 3. The longitudinal inclination shown in Fig. v2 is to give the desired tension on the prongs or hooks D at the ends of the arms C to cause them to bind in the bolt-board,

While the lateral inclination so adjusts the said hooked ends as to cause them to engage upon the faces of the bolt-board at opposite points. The arrangement of the lclampingarms to project from the opposite ends of the coil is such as to give tension, so it will twist if applied to a board of less thickness than the distance between the ends of the arms B and cause the side arms C to lie flat against the bolt-hoard, as will be understood from the end views 5 and 6, in the former of which the fastener is shown applied to a bolt-board of a thickness equal to the distance between the ends of the arms B, While in Fig. 6 the bolt-board is much thinner and the fastener is shown twisted by its tension so the side arms C will rest flat against the thinnery bolt-board. It will be understood from this that whether the boltboard be thick, as shown in Figt, or thinner, as shown in Fig. 6, the side arms C will lie close against the bolt-board, and thus avoid any projection which Wouldoperate to cause the goods to present abad appearance, as goods wrapped on a bolt-board with end the fastener a twisting y projections would not appear in a merchantable manner on the shelf.` By my invention the goods can Abe rolled smoothly and evenly and will present a good appearance at all times.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by-Letters Thetag-fastenerherein described,composed of wire having a central coil, end arms projecting outwardly in reverse directions from the opposite ends of .the coil, the side arms extending from the outer extremities of `the end arms at approximately right angles thereto and inclining inwardly toward their extremities, both longitudinally and laterally, and provided at such extremities with inwardly-projectin g hooks all substantially as described, whereby the longitudinal and lateral inclination of the side arms will coperate with the central coil in causing the fastener to adjust to the thickness lof the boltboard, and the hooked ends to engage upon the faces of the bolt-board, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth. 4

'SIDNEY Gr. SPENCER.

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